A welcome visitor to our yard this past spring, this beautiful speckled king snake was making sure we were copperhead free. The mating water moccasins captured at the end were filmed on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa a few…Read more

The latest subject in the Critter Tube music video series, Layla came to us a few months ago from the Greater Birmingham Humane Society. The background music is an excerpt from one of the weekly recording and jam sessions of…Read more

“Dark Hollow” has always been a favorite in our family picking sessions, especially the Grateful Dead version from their 1988 Acoustic release, Reckoning. According to Wikipedia, this tune was made popular by the Grateful Dead’s early 70s recording. Originally written…Read more

I wrote “Lightning Cracks the Sky” in 2002 and recorded it a few times by myself over the years, but this was the first or second time we all played it together as a band, and we were stretching it…Read more

This month marks a year I started working with Bud and Joe on a recording project to capture Bud playing and singing some of his favorite old-time bluegrass and hillbilly songs with Joe laying down the bass. Early on, we…Read more